Each encounter with the Bonitas seemed to take more and more out of him.

While this encounter seems to be limited to an account of the past, it is in fact very much determined by the present.

Every encounter he had in this city seemed to be raising challenges of one sort or another.

The encounter with Roger seemed to indicate one thing clearly.

The last encounter seemed to have been a decade or so back.

Our encounter with the mobile seems to demonstrate that quite clearly.

The short critical encounter seemed to have been going on for ages.

Later, the encounter with the blue-eyed carny seemed almost like a dream.

Though it occupies much of the second act, the eventual encounter with her birth mother seems to pass in an instant.

Our encounter now seemed definitely at an end; I turned, about to go on, when someone called out, "Sir!"